The second Daoist saw Shen Leng and Chen Ran get down from the carriage, and looked at his master Qinglin Daoren with a smug face: "Master, these two are not women no matter how you look at them, my pairs of Daning Tiancheng's four-year-old socks and those two Daning Tiancheng's six-year-old underwear will be handed over to you." ”

Qinglin Daoist glared at him: "I can insist that the two of them are women, I am the master, and you have to listen to what the master says." ”

The second Taoist ignored him and walked over quickly: "General Shen, General Chen, come and bring something, just come and take it for me." ”

Chen Ran stretched out his hand and patted Erben's chest: "The pectoral muscles are big again." ”

Two books: "......"

"Busy in the Taoist temple lately?"

Shen Leng looked around: "How do you see a lot of cars and horses?" ”

"Real people are out."

Erben Taoist explained: "I don't know what's wrong, this time Xiao Zhang Zhenren suddenly decided to open the Taoist temple after leaving the customs, so there are many people who come to see every day, he sees ten people every day, so every morning the Taoist temple is crowded with water, it's strange to say, no matter who has seen the real person and left when he is happy, is it possible to see the real person is fateful?" ”

Shen Leng was a little puzzled, seeing ten people every day, that was not Xiao Zhang's character.

Although he hadn't seen it a few times, Shen Leng probably knew that it was a shy and introverted little girl who even had some difficulties in communicating with people, and it seemed a little unusual that she suddenly went out of the customs and began to meet outsiders.

"Besides, is there anything else unusual about Xiao Zhang Zhenren?"

"Love to talk."

The second Taoist said as he walked: "It looks a lot more cheerful than before the retreat, I always didn't like to see people before, and when I saw people, I just lowered my head and hurried by, by the way, I love to laugh." ”

The second Daoist glanced at Shen Leng: "It's just ...... I always think that he laughs strangely, even if he looks good-looking, but there is no smile in his eyes, it is fake. ”

Shen Leng snorted and didn't say anything more.

Xiangningguan backyard, Xiao Zhang Zhenren walked to the door to send out a person who had just asked to see her, and when she turned around to go back to the house, she saw a person standing at the door of the backyard, she was in a trance, her footsteps stopped, her shoulders trembled slightly, and then she sped up and returned to the house, took her glasses and put them on and came back to look, before she only vaguely saw that the figure outside was somewhat familiar, even if it was just a vague shadow, she could judge it, and at that moment her heart seemed to have been hit by something.

It's complicated.

"General Shen...... You're back. ”

"Well, I'm back."

Shen Leng walked up to Xiao Zhang Zhenren with the gift he had chosen, smiled and said, "I heard that you have been a little busy lately. ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren hurriedly shook his head like a child who had made a mistake: "Not busy." ”

Shen Leng pointed to the room, Xiao Zhang Zhenren remembered that he should invite guests into the house to sit, she asked Shen Leng to open the door and invite Shen Leng in, and went to make tea, Shen Leng sat down and looked around, the room was very clean, and there was a faint smell of sandalwood, and then he suddenly remembered Chen Ran's matter.

"Did the prince send someone over and ask a real person for a favor before?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren came out with a teapot and was a little confused: "No, I have never had anything to do with His Royal Highness the Prince, and I have never heard of who he sent." ”

Shen Leng nodded, and said in his heart that there was really a problem.

"What's wrong?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren asked.

Shen Leng said: "It's nothing, it's just that the prince asked me before, and I said that you don't see the guest." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren hummed, and then shook his head: "Now I am willing to see more people, see different people, my Dao heart is blocked, I am trapped, I have to find some insights from others, I see all kinds of people every day, experience their difficulties, listen more, comfort more, I feel that my difficulties are nothing, or, I can forget my own difficulties for the time being." ”

Shen Leng was silent for a while before raising his head to look at her: "Is it convenient for real people to tell me about the difficulties they have encountered?" ”

"There's nothing inconvenient."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren hurriedly shook his head, his eyes flickering more and more: "It's just ...... It's just a matter of personal practice, didn't I just say that the natural Tao, I have reached the bottleneck of enlightenment, and then I figured out that it is not only people who are not seen behind closed doors, but also nature, and people are one of all things in nature, if even people don't want to see it, then how can we understand the perfection of nature? ”

"No one can perceive the perfection of nature."

Shen Leng looked at the hot tea in the cup: "I don't understand the things in the Dao, although my master is a Taoist, but even he himself has not seriously practiced the Dao for a few days, I just heard him say, if a person is forcing himself to go against his heart all the time, then the perception is not the way of nature, but the way of man, people in the natural world, through the nature of all things to understand the truth, in fact, it is just the truth that people themselves come up with, and it has nothing to do with all things in nature, if it is really to conform to nature, lazy people are lazy, right?" Vicious people are vicious, right? ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren glanced at Shen Leng's eyes, and hurriedly lowered his head: "What the general said is reasonable." ”

"Those who have reached a certain point in difficulty for themselves are saints."

Shen Leng shook his head: "I would prefer that real people live more easily." ”

He glanced outside the door, and his voice lowered slightly: "Your Majesty told me something about real people, the old real people on Longhu Mountain wanted to send you to Chang'an because they were afraid that no one would be able to protect you when he was gone, and after arriving in Chang'an, Your Majesty let you live alone according to your wishes, Your Majesty feels that this is the protection of you, and the real person is now trapped behind closed doors, in fact, what is trapped is the hesitation in your heart." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren lowered his head and said in a very soft voice: "I am trapped in my heart, I think about seeing more and hearing more, I feel the lives of so many people, the rights and wrongs of so many people, the ease and difficulty of so many people, and I will open up when I am trapped." ”

"Someone else's is someone else's."

Shen Leng said: "Because you are a woman, I feel that people can't accept a woman as a real person in Longhu Mountain, you have always been difficult for yourself for Longhu Mountain, for Daozong and for Daning, and you are about to become a saint." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren said to himself: "Isn't it good to be a saint? ”

"Okay."

Shen Leng got up: "There is a need for saints in this world, and saints are still divided into men and women." ”

"I ...... I don't know. ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren said with some uncertainty, and after a moment of silence, he continued: "Master always says that I am the hope of Longhu Mountain and the hope of Taoism, I have told Master many times, I am a woman, how can a woman be a real person of Longhu Mountain?" How can you be the national teacher of Daning? But Master also said that if it is destined to be you, then it must be you, whether you are a man or a woman. ”

Shen Leng can understand how much pressure this girl is carrying, this pressure is forced on her shoulders by her master Longhu Mountain Lao Zhenren, she is afraid that she will disappoint Lao Zhenren, and tries hard to hide the fact that she is a woman, a girl of her age bears what she should not bear, whether the status of the leader of the Longhu Mountain Dao Sect is orthodox or not, whether the status of the national teacher is orthodox or not, she needs to worry too much.

Shen Leng suddenly thought of something, he looked at Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "You said, the old man said that whether you are a woman or a man, it is destined to be you?" ”

"Well, Master said this at the beginning, more than once, he said that sooner or later one day I will understand his words, and when I understand it, I will not feel so painful, and I will be able to calm down."

Shen Leng slowly exhaled: "Actually, the meaning of the old man is all in the words." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren was stunned: "I don't understand what the general means." ”

"The old man said, whether you are a man or a woman, it is destined to be you, don't the old people understand that you can't hide for a lifetime? He is asking you to see it, when you can see your identity, and when you let go of your obsession, so you will be calm. ”

"But once outsiders know that I am a woman, there will be criticism of Longhu Mountain, I have no way to explain to Master and His Majesty, if Longhu Mountain loses its orthodox status because of this, I am a sinner."

"How could your master not think of it once, he was not afraid, so he would tell you these words."

Shen Leng said: "Generations of real people who have traveled the world will bring helpless orphans back to Longhu Mountain, all of them are boys, and you are the only one who is a girl, is it really because the old people think that you are gifted and destined to inherit the position of real people?" He's not, he's just merciful, and can't bear to see that you can't live. ”

Shen Leng said: "If people in the world do not recognize the truth of existence because men and women are different, it is unfair, men take it for granted, and if women take it for granted, then it will not work...... If you can be calm, the world will change a lot because of your calmness, even if no one changes because of you, at least you yourself are not so sad. ”

"I ......"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren looked at Shen Leng: "I can try, but I will definitely fail." ”

Shen Leng got up: "I'll go to Weiyang Palace now." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren also got up: "Give me a little time to think about it, okay?" ”

Shen Leng sat down again.

Xiao Zhang Zhenren was silent for a while and then asked: "If I am no longer a national teacher, not Zhang Zhenren, what else am I?" ”

Shen Leng replied seriously: "My friend." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren's face changed, he lowered his head and said softly: "Can Zhang Zhenren be a woman?" ”

Shen Leng replied: "If not, then it must not be you who is wrong." ”

At the same time, Weiyang Palace.

The emperor looked at the letter on the table in a daze, he knew that Shen Leng had gone to Xiangning Temple, so he couldn't help but take out the letter and look at it, it was a handwritten letter from the old man of Longhu Mountain to him.

"If the world thinks that the Taoist orthodoxy is a man, the world is wrong, if the Taoist thinks that the Taoist orthodoxy is a man, the Taoist is wrong, if she can't understand this truth in her life, then it has nothing to do with the world, it has nothing to do with the Tao, it's just her own suffering, the minister can not want a Zhang Zhenren, but I don't want her to be sad for the rest of her life, the minister adopts so many children, they all think they are my disciples, only by adopting this girl, do they feel that she is my child, and then feel that all disciples are my children."

"The minister knows that such an idea is worthy of His Majesty and Daning, and may lead to the instability of the Taoist sect and the instability of the people's hearts, but Your Majesty, the minister still decided to leave the decision to herself, no matter what kind of choice, the minister is willing to carry it for her, if she thinks about it, and hopes that His Majesty will fulfill it, it will be the minister's choice rather than hers, so if the world criticizes, it is the minister who criticizes it, not her."

"The disciple of the minister, all can be Zhang Zhenren, only choose her to suffer the most, the minister has suffered again and again, and he can't let go, if he can't change the Taoist sect because of this matter, the minister only hopes that because of this matter, Longhu Mountain can be changed, and then travel the world, don't just pick up boys, there is choice of mercy, not mercy."

"If Your Majesty thinks it's inappropriate...... Please Your Majesty send her back to Longhu Mountain, the disciples on Longhu Mountain actually know that she is a woman, and the minister has never hidden it from the other disciples, before letting her go to Beijing, the minister discussed the matter with the disciples, and the disciples all said that if the world does not allow her, if the Taoist sect does not allow her, Longhu Mountain allows her, and there is a group of her brothers here. ”

"A monk also has a home."

"Your Majesty, if she finally succeeds, Your Majesty doesn't have to hand over this letter to her, if she can't do it, please give it to her, let her understand that the minister has to let her work hard, and after returning to Longhu Mountain, I hope she will do good deeds, regardless of men and women."

The emperor sighed: "Old fellow, you are forcing me to gamble with you. ”